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Joseph Leidy was born in Philadelphia to an established family of wealthy extraction. He did not do so well with formal classroom education, preferring to be outside studying plants, insects, and other living organisms. He studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with a medical degree in 1844.
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Oct 11, 1998 · Barnes & Noble. Bookshop. Indiebound. Indigo. Powell's. Seminary Co-op. Description. Awards. Contemporaries of the modest and unassuming scientist Joseph Leidy (1823–91) revered him as the supreme consultant in questions relating to human anatomy, ...
The results of Leidy's intellectual pursuits will long remain to testify to the manner of man that he was. THIS well-known American naturalist was born on September 9, 1823.
Oct 11, 1998 · Hardcover – October 11, 1998. by Leonard Warren (Author) 4.8 5 ratings. See all formats and editions. Contemporaries of the modest and unassuming scientist Joseph Leidy (1823–91) revered him as the supreme consultant in questions relating to human anatomy, paleontology, protozoology, parasitology, anthropology, mineralogy, botany, and ...
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May 30, 2019 · Joseph Leidy, Walt Whitman, and the Anatomy of the Scrotum. By the mid-nineteenth century, Joseph Mellick Leidy (1823-91) was the poster boy of Victorian natural history. A photographic portrait of him in middle age shows a handsome, serious, debonair man, sitting cross-legged, his right elbow casually resting on a table, inches away from a ...
Jun 27, 2011 · Feedloader (Clickability) By the time the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge series published Joseph Leidy’s monograph Cretaceous Reptiles of the United States in 1865, dinosaurs were ...
